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CABI database training

CABI database training. CAB Abstracts. Introductory demonstration. Today’s schedule. 11:00 - 12:15 CAB Direct platform (Basic and Advanced) 12:15 – 12.35 Refreshments break 12.35 – 13.00 eBooks 13.00 – 14.00 CABI compendium. CAB Abstracts Updates.

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CABI database training

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  1. CABI database training CAB Abstracts • Introductory demonstration

  2. Today’s schedule • 11:00 - 12:15 CAB Direct platform (Basic and Advanced) • 12:15 – 12.35 Refreshments break • 12.35 – 13.00 eBooks • 13.00 – 14.00 CABI compendium

  3. CAB AbstractsUpdates • Key resource for applied life sciences – agriculture, forestry, animal and vet sciences, soil science, AND nutrition, environment and leisure and tourism • Over 7.3 million records • 363k records added in 2012 (vs 353k in 2011) • 8,124 serials indexed, from 119 countries in over 50 languages, including 486 new serials in 2012 • Over 188,000 Full Text Records (43k added in 2012) from over 680 journals plus conferences – over 70% non-open access

  4. CAB AbstractsSubject Coverage • Horticultural science • Human nutrition • Invasive species • Leisure and tourism • Medicinal plants and pharmacology • Microbiology • Mycology • Natural resources, land/water management • Nematology • Organic and sustainable agriculture • Parasitology • Plant pathology • Plant protection • Postharvest • Protozoology • Soil science • Veterinary medicine • Virology • Waste management • Agricultural engineering • Applied economics and sociology • Animal production • Animal health • Animal nutrition • Aquaculture • Biofuels • Biosafety and Bioterrorism • Biotechnology • Breeding • Chemistry • Climate change • Crop science and grasslands • Ecotourism • Entomology • Environmental science • Food science and technology • Forestry • Genetics • Helminthology

  5. CAB AbstractsGeographic Coverage from 119 countries

  6. CAB AbstractsFull Text – headline Facts • Full Text for over 188,000 records • 62% Journal articles, 36% Conference papers • Small, but growing number of reports • 77% English • Over 680 current journals from 81 countries • Over 700 total FT journals in database

  7. Training agenda • Simple searching and navigating the interface • Refining results through facets • MyCABDirect features • Q&A

  8. What is a bibliographic database? • A bibliographic database can be compared to a printed journal • It contains: • Record articles with bibliographic data • Indexes

  9. Homepage • www.cabdirect.org

  10. Boolean searching • Retrieves only records that contain all the terms chosen • AND • e.g. “Silver fir” AND Czech • OR • e.g. “silver fir”OR “Abies alba” • Retrieves only records that contain any of the terms chosen • NOT • e.g. “silver fir”NOT Germany • Retrieves only records that include keyword terms and exclude certain terms

  11. We have covered…. • Conducting simple site searches and navigate your way through the site • Refine searches using facets • Creating email and RSS alerts for new content • Permanently save searches and records

  12. CABI database training CAB Abstracts • Advanced features

  13. Training agenda • Advanced searching • Manual field searching using field tags • CAB Thesaurus • Q&A

  14. Advanced searching • Independent field searching for search terms • Language, document and full text filters • Date refining options

  15. Manual field searching

  16. Super indexes

  17. CABThesaurus • Controlled vocabulary for indexing terms • Hierarchical structure • Searchable database for easy referencing • Multilingual resource covering 11 languages

  18. Eukaryotes Plants Fungi Animals Ascomycota Ascomycota Basidiomycotina Phycomycetes Zygomycota Agaricomycotina Pucciniomycotina Wallemiomycetes Ustilaginomycotina Microbotryomycetes Pucciniomycetes Classiculomycetes Pucciniales Septobasidiales Platygloeales Pachnocybales Helicobasidiales Hemileia Raveneliaceae Cronartiaceae Aecidium Uropyxidaceae Hemileiawrightiae Hemileiacoffeicola Hemileiavastatrix

  19. We have covered…. • Advanced search screen for simple field searching and date refine options • Manual field searching using field tags and ACBI specific indexing codes • Building complex searches with CAB Thesaurus

  20. Děkuji Any Questions? For more information on CABI training and to access training materials visit www.cabi.org/training

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